Darkwatch Walkthrough & Strategy Guide

Published: Jan 12, 2005

Walkthrough

Curse of the West

This final battle is the last thing that stands in your way. Depending on your decision after battling Lazarus, you'll face either Tala or Cassidy in this epic confrontation. While both fights are very similar, you'll need to keep mindful of each lady's unique attacks in order to deal with her appropriately.

In general, you'll want to jump backwards while circling around the outside of the pillars that make up the arena. Unload your ammo stocks and try to peg the enemy with a dynamite stick directly. Though the dynamite won't explode on contact, it will fall slowly and should explode under the lady you're battling.

Running around the pillars in the center of the arena accomplishes a couple of things. First and foremost, the pillars will serves as shields for some of the projectiles the enemy launches your way. The other gain is the health and magic orbs that appear around the pillars. As the women make sacrifices of other women, orbs will appear at the pillars that you should grab. In fact, it's a good idea to use a magic attack as soon as you've got one to deal a chunk of damage to the enemy. If you're playing sharp, you should be able to collect enough orbs to launch two or three more magic attacks during the course of the battle.

Tala

Tala is, without question, the more difficult boss to battle. Though her damage potential is about the same as Cassidy's, her attacks are much harder to avoid.

Tala's first attacks aren't much to worry about. She fires either a wide spray of fireballs (similar to Lazarus) or launches three large red projectiles that slowly float towards you. These large projectiles are very damaging, but their turning radius is pretty small. You can easily dodge these shots by jumping back and sidestepping around them. Just be sure to jump when they pass you—even if they hit only close to you, their blast can take you down with them.

The next attack Tala unleashes is a lightning-like wave that strikes the ground repeatedly as it moves towards you. Again, this attack is pretty powerful but it's also very easy to dodge. Simply jump backwards and sidestep around the arena to avoid the burn of this attack.

The one attack that makes Tala so dangerous is her feathery cloud of doom. This cloud attack swoops towards you with good speed and is very hard to avoid if you're not ready for it. To best avoid this attack, stay grounded as the cloud moves towards you. At the last second, perform a double jump sideways to leap over the bulk of the cloud. As long as none of the yellow spires within the cloud touch you, you should escape unscathed.

Cassidy

Cassidy's attacks are pretty similar to Tala's, but still unique enough to warrant study. Like Tala, Cassidy's first attack is a spread attack that sends multiple projectiles your way. This attack is easily dodged simply by backpedaling and sidestepping. Cassidy's second attack is a single giant projectile that slowly floats towards you. Unlike Tala's similar attack, this shot is neary impossible to dodge. Your only hope here is to shoot the projectile out of the sky, though that's luckily not too difficult. One Shotgun blast will destroy the projectile, letting you continue your attack.

Cassidy also has an attack that resembles Tala's lightning strike. Large plumes of light beat the ground as it moves in wave-like form towards you. As with Tala, jump backwards and sidestep around this attack to avoid it entirely.

The main attack from Cassidy that you need to watch for is a giant explosion of light. Cassidy curls up in a ball and lets out a massive blast that bathes half the arena in light. The only way to dodge this attack is to put distance between you and the enemy; the moment you see Cassidy curl up to attack, start jumping backwards as fast as possible to avoid the shockwave.